Foreign Literature

According to Susan Markel M.D. (2008) that a child’s brain would not able to function well without all of the nine necessary amino acids with a diet that is well balanced. Feeding breakfast, lunch, and two healthy snacks a day to the children in an outreach program would make them learn so much more when their minds were not alert on their stomach alone.

It was stated in an article that there are factors are inclined with overweight that can influence the child’s readiness to learn and achievement. “Children’s basic nutritional and fitness needs are met and they attain higher achievement levels”. According to this article if children who are not nutritious during in their brain’s formative years score lower in the areas of vocabulary, reading comprehension, arithmetic and general knowledge. When fasting in morning it would have a negative effect on the cognitive performance even if the children are healthy and well-nourished. Proper nutrition has positive effects in enhancing academic performance. It relieves hunger as well as it improves the school performance of the students. It also increases the math

and reading skills and student behavior. (http://www.californiahealthykids.org/articles/NPA_3.pdf )

According to Monique Barb (2008) that there are lots of young people are observant in the new products on the market. People don’t choose the food by its taste but by commercial. Because of the commercialized products we cannot focus on what to buy because people are attracted to it. They don’t care about much of the content and having a healthy body is having a good academic performance.

According to Jenny Hildenbrandt (2010), families now have quick, less-nutritional meals that may lead to unhealthy eating habits. These adolescents may have a greater risk to their cognitive development. Having healthy food choices becomes an